Tom Herman Quotes

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.

No one puts higher expectations on themselves than I do.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

I think I'm a harder critic on myself than anybody is. I think I judge myself harder than any of the coaches do.

I really judge me on me.

I'll never get complacent. I am my own toughest critic.

I'll never give myself an A since I ask a lot from myself.

I'm a guy who expects a lot from himself.

I always want to improve, and I am never satisfied with my performance.

I am notoriously hard on myself in terms of working on new material and while I am critical of my performance on the Led Zeppelin material, I am way more critical of my own stuff. I'm pretty hard on myself.

I'm going to be more critical of myself than anyone could ever be.

I think the only expectation is that I put on myself to do everything right and to put myself in a position to perform as best that I can.

You've got to test yourself against the best to know you are the best.

I wanted to look in the mirror and be accountable to only one person. The only person is me, and that's the only thing that drives me. The only person I'm in competition with is myself.

I think sometimes it's about just finding the measuring stick that's different than the one the world puts on you. It's finding the one in which you're held accountable and how you hold each other accountable; what a good job looks like in a particular situation and how to be better at your job than you were yesterday.

I put a lot of pressure on myself to be the best.

I think everyone is their harshest critic, but I strive for excellence as much as I can because I think it shows.

I just try to look into the mirror, and work on the things that I wasn't doing, and I made a promise to myself that after the season, I will look at the same mirror, and say that you did everything you could

Being a perfectionist is not an evil thing.

I take very seriously this notion that my highest job is to live a better life, all the time and to the best of my ability. I need to monitor my own progress - take my own inventory - and clean my own closet. I am trying to do all that.

That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection ever present in their minds, an ideal infinitely clearer and greater than any common people have, and they also realize how far they are from fulfilling their ideal.

I work on my game daily. Because I'm never satisfied, never going to be.

I'm the kind of person where you're never done, you just keep perfecting and perfecting and perfecting, or trying to fix things that drive you crazy. Often times when you watch a film, "if I could just get through this minute, I'll be fine." So I think I'm just hard on myself.

We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.